Hi, my evaporative humidifier just broke and it is time for a new one. What I am looking for

  • no cloud/account needed, just local, zigbee, zwave, wifi you name it
  • easy integration with hass
  • easy to clean
  • low maintenance fees (filters and stuff)
  • big rooms 50sqm+ so that it has enough “ooompf” Any ideas highly appreciated
    • rs5th@lemmy.scottlabs.ioEnglish
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      2 years ago

      It’s amazing, I think it still requires YAML config, which is a barrier for some folks. Also a bit annoying that it doesn’t have it’s own dedicated “restart” button like Generic Thermostat, so you have to restart all of HA for the changes to generic_hygrostat to apply.

      • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Well, I didn’t do exactly that. lol. But same setup.

        I made my own humidity sensor with a DHT-11 connected to an ESP-8266 running ESPHome. I’m pretty sure it was automatically detected through the ESPHome integration, so that was one less .yml entry I had to maintain.

        But yeah, the other end of that was just a tasmota-flashed smart plug hooked to a dumb humidifier that I’d top off every day or so.